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I'm a Maiden fan and despite them not selling truck loads of records in the states, they still manage to tour very well, world wide. They will be doing a stadium show in Sao Paulo next month with Cavalera Conspiracy opening for them. Man, do South Americans love their heavy metal or what?
And not to forget the Japanese, Maiden is doing back to back shows at the Super Arena in Tokyo. That place holds 37k so a lot of metal heads over there too.

They love rock. Period.

Look back to the Rush In Rio DVD. The size of that crowd is off the chart!

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

Look back to the Rush In Rio DVD. The size of that crowd is off the chart!

Those old Kiss videos with 300,000 people going crazy are just epic.

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

They sure do! Heavy metal or hard rock. Heck, even look at the massive crowd MB headlined to in Jakarta 00:34 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcAxJD9_xM (not to mention selling out the Budokan twice over last year), but yet are playing the HOB in US???

<----- Solo, both those two always tour over there (Sao Paulo).

Don wrote:I'm a Maiden fan and despite them not selling truck loads of records in the states, they still manage to tour very well, world wide. They will be doing a stadium show in Sao Paulo next month with Cavalera Conspiracy opening for them. Man, do South Americans love their heavy metal or what?
And not to forget the Japanese, Maiden is doing back to back shows at the Super Arena in Tokyo. That place holds 37k so a lot of metal heads over there too.

Man, we really love Metal and hard rock. I can't explain the reasons. Maybe, metal was the voice of the opressed people, who lived decades under dictatorship governments. In Brazil, the end of Military governments was the same time of the first Rock in Rio Festival, in 85. AC/DC, Maiden, Scorpions, Ozzy, Whitesnake and Queen were in that bill and they become favorite acts here. I was 11 at that time, but since then, I saw Maiden 6 times and I'm going to my 7th, on March 27.

Don wrote:

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

Look back to the Rush In Rio DVD. The size of that crowd is off the chart!

Those old Kiss videos with 300,000 people going crazy are just epic.

Maracana Stadium... June 18, 1983...the day that I became a metal fan !!

From Rush, the crowd "singing" YYZ was fenomenal, and of course, I was there!!

Deb wrote:

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

They sure do! Heavy metal or hard rock. Heck, even look at the massive crowd MB headlined to in Jakarta 00:34 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXcAxJD9_xM (not to mention selling out the Budokan twice over last year), but yet are playing the HOB in US???

<----- Solo, both those two always tour over there (Sao Paulo).

I didn't have the opportunity to see them. JSS was in Rio with Talisman in 2007, but I went to a marriage...and missed that great show...

I'm waiting for a MB South American tour...I love Mr. Big. I have all the albuns with PG, and What If... is coming from the US next week.
And I've bought my JRNY ticket for the Sao Paulo show, on March 30.

SilvioRodrigues wrote:I didn't have the opportunity to see them. JSS was in Rio with Talisman in 2007, but I went to a marriage...and missed that great show...

I'm waiting for a MB South American tour...I love Mr. Big. I have all the albuns with PG, and What If... is coming from the US next week.
And I've bought my JRNY ticket for the Sao Paulo show, on March 30.

BTW, there is a dvd boot floating around of that last Talisman 2007 show in Rio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiDX6EZN2sk

Deb wrote:

SilvioRodrigues wrote:I didn't have the opportunity to see them. JSS was in Rio with Talisman in 2007, but I went to a marriage...and missed that great show...

I'm waiting for a MB South American tour...I love Mr. Big. I have all the albuns with PG, and What If... is coming from the US next week.
And I've bought my JRNY ticket for the Sao Paulo show, on March 30.

BTW, there is a dvd boot floating around of that last Talisman 2007 show in Rio. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiDX6EZN2sk

Thanks Deb...

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

Look back to the Rush In Rio DVD. The size of that crowd is off the chart!

Too bad that DVD is absolute garbage. Whoever the director was on that project(probably some local production company union member) dropped the ball BIG TIME. The camera changes were every 1 second! Camera is on Alex - one second later its on Ged....then one second later its back to Alex. I watched it once. How about staying on the guitarist for the entire solo. I didn't mind the constant raining, or the crowd. Those people are true fans. The camera work ruined that DVD. Couple that with the Vapor Trails mastering clipping issues - and that wasn't a great period for the band.

S2M wrote:

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

Look back to the Rush In Rio DVD. The size of that crowd is off the chart!

Too bad that DVD is absolute garbage. Whoever the director was on that project(probably some local production company union member) dropped the ball BIG TIME. The camera changes were every 1 second! Camera is on Alex - one second later its on Ged....then one second later its back to Alex. I watched it once. How about staying on the guitarist for the entire solo. I didn't mind the constant raining, or the crowd. Those people are true fans. The camera work ruined that DVD. Couple that with the Vapor Trails mastering clipping issues - and that wasn't a great period for the band.

The mastering on "Vapor Trails" is truly dreadful. Almost as bad as Metallica's last two studio albums.

S2M wrote:

verslibre wrote:They love rock. Period.

Look back to the Rush In Rio DVD. The size of that crowd is off the chart!

Too bad that DVD is absolute garbage. Whoever the director was on that project(probably some local production company union member) dropped the ball BIG TIME. The camera changes were every 1 second! Camera is on Alex - one second later its on Ged....then one second later its back to Alex. I watched it once. How about staying on the guitarist for the entire solo. I didn't mind the constant raining, or the crowd. Those people are true fans. The camera work ruined that DVD. Couple that with the Vapor Trails mastering clipping issues - and that wasn't a great period for the band.

SCORPIONS' UNBREAKABLE ONE NIGHT IN VIENNA DVD is the worst one...impossible to follow, especially when the "focus" is on James Kottak...